profoundly stupid question

ShootingArts said:
brushing the wall so gently
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The Gran Turismo game on play stations taught how to use the wall. Grease it in just like the B-52 pilot landing the big bird. Once contact is made full throttle. Exiting the curve uh significantly faster than a normal method. You can bet the mechanics tuned the body for that track.
Well if you can grease it in it's full throttle all the way. 🤷‍♂️
 
gregcantrall said:
How did that conversation in top gun er uh Days of Thunder go?
"HE HIT ME!!!"
"He didn't hit you. He rubbed you. And Rubbing IS Raceing. "
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Early in my racing career I had somebody knock me over a dangerous turn almost certain to flip a car and do major damage. That was in the prelim. When the feature started I was timed in six or eight places in front of him. Too far to park my car and wait on him so I bounced off of everyone even slightly in my way getting up to him after almost lapping the field. Then I shotputted him into the infield, hard. No finesse at all!

By the next season I was indeed very gently rubbing cars when the driver had offended me. I picked the time and place and a tender rub that didn't even scuff the paint on the car I was driving had the other car needing two wreckers to get it onto the trailer! One ol' boy had written me a hot check for $250. He built a new car stem to stern and brought down a many time state champ from Mississippi to drive it. First night out he got a little loose in front of me and got the famous fickle finger nudge. Too bad for the people that brought the fancy driver down, we weren't in Mississippi, we were in Lafayette Louisiana!(grin)

That thar was real rubbing!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Early in my racing career
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That reminds me of a workmates that played professional basketball in Portugal. He related the basketball version of rubbing.
His mantra was, "the taste of blood excites me."
He said the way He got respect in the league was to get thrown out of a couple of games. His elbows were deadly. And he was soon known as El Loco Americano.
 
ShootingArts said:
I noticed that! Didn't say anything because all of Cruise's movies seem alike. He did make two fighter jet movies. Neither one was Days of Thunder, the stock car racing movie. The wild thing. they did have to outlaw driving on the wall after somebody used the wall for some extra room in the real world!

I thought a Darlington stripe was badass! I remember seeing pictures of real Darlington stripes on some cars in the early seventies. Two hundred miles an hour and brushing the wall so gently they just smeared the paint a little, not the torn to crap side of the car in the movie. I was in my teens driving a 600+ horsepower dirt car and I tried to get a Darlington stripe on the side of it when conditions were right. I tried a handful of times. I got a little smudging but never that long wide smudge, four to six inches wide and sometimes extending both sides of the rear wheel.

Hu
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The sprint car guys use the wall for traction all the time when the track gets dry/slick.
 
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